What is Solid State Fermentation (SSF)? In Solid State Fermentation, also called Solid Substrate Fermentation or SSF, the fermentation substrate or media will be in the solid state. Here the microorganisms are grown on a solid substratum in the absence or near absence of free water. The moisture content of […]
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Animal Cell Culture (Notes)
Advantages and Disadvantages of Cell Culture: Tissue culture is an aseptic in vitro culture of animal or plant cells in a precisely controlled environmental condition. The term “Tissue Culture” was for the first time coined by Thomas Burrows. Even though the in vitro culture of prokaryotes and both plant and […]
Continue ReadingApplications of Restriction Endonucleases in Biotechnology (Short Notes)
Restriction Endonucleases Restriction endonucleases (also called as molecular scissors) are a class of nuclease enzymes which cut the DNA strand at precise locations. They are specific endonuclease enzymes in the cells which first recognize the specific sequence (called restriction sites) within the DNA strand and cleave the phosphodiester backbone of […]
Continue ReadingBatch Fermentation vs Continuous Fermentation: Similarities and Differences
Batch Fermentation and Continuous Fermentation are the two commonly adopted Industrial Fermentation methods for the scale production of microbial biomass or metabolites. Batch Fermentation: Here the fermenter is first filled with the raw material (carbon source). Then the microbes are added and allowed to ferment the raw material under optimum pH […]
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Fermentation Technology Fermentation: An art from the past, a skill for the future… Brain McNeil What is fermentation? Ø Fermentation is a metabolic process which converts carbohydrates to alcohols, organic acids or gases by the activity of enzymes of microbial origin. Ø Microbes involved in fermentation process: Bacteria and Fungi. […]
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